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Design
(A–Z)

01

Artificial Horizon

The sextant as a walk-in installation of furniture and sculptures



02

L‘Avventura di due sposi

A miniature bed for the 1958 story by Italo Calvino




03

All watched over by machines of loving grace

An industrial design study on garage door systems, and thoughts on their potential as guardian spirits



04

Beautifi–cation

Three robots challenging our trust and common beauty rituals

 

05

My Buffet Server

A series of illustrations on domestic server infrastructures

Catalogue Home Futures, Design Museum London, 2021


06

The Critical Caryatid

An AI as music critic: a fairy tale about AI, musical rating systems, and automated criticism

07

Damaszener Stahl

Damascus fraud! The knife that would like to be something better.

08

DIN2121

Measuring instruments for the year 2121, among them: the last sextant

wienwoche, 2021
Vienna Design Week, 2021

09

Fahrrad und Hummer

Scenography for historical Christmas ornaments from Gablonz

Museum für Angewandte Kunst, 2025–26

10

Glass Mountain

The mountain of shards – between fairy tale and global value chains

Coll. with Stoelzle Oberglas
Schloss Hollenegg, 2023

11

Kalender–revolution

A robot for delivering bad news

London Design Festival, 2019

12

Kind Hands

Corner protection: a caring gesture translated into an object

Projekt: Berggasse 19, Vienna, 2024
Shelf Life, Vienna, 2025
Salone del Mobile, Milan, 2026

13

King GAFA and the Magical 0–1 Crop

A modern fairy tale about digital sovereignty and platform capitalism

mydata conference
MAK Design Lab

14

Kugellager Publishing House

On the trail of the ball bearing, with a five-year-old who at the time liked spinning around her own axis

Research residency at Röhsska Museet, 2024

15

Mounted Porcelain

Porcelain objects with speculative extensions, loosely following the tradition of mounted ceramics

Schloss Hollenegg, 2023
A1043 Paris, 2026


16

Nostalgia – Posthuman

Seven machines that mechanically reproduce specific bodily sensations. A project on nostalgia and memory in posthuman futures.

Jerusalem Design Week, 2018

17

A Play of Dependancies

Three lamps that can only be operated by two people

„Back Ahead“ – New Austrian Design Perspectives, Salone del Mobile, 2016

18

10 Rammkatzen

Possibly the most elegant way to build a fence

DING, 2021
MAK permanent collection
AUT NOW, 100 × Österreichisches Design für das 21. Jahrhundert, 2024/2025
Wiener Vasen, bureaufomo, 2026

19

Ruin

A ruinous miniature architecture made from a BRIO crossing

Kunstraum SUPER, 2023

20

Stadt der Temperamente

A theatre project taking a comedic look at research on networked neighbourhoods in the Seestadt

21

Suchagent: Schweren Herzens

An exhibition on search culture on online marketplaces, in collaboration with willhaben

Vienna Design Week, 2021
Forward Festival, 2022

22

There Will Be! People! On The Sun! Soon!

An exhibition on the cultural significance of solar energy, with historical and contemporary objects

Museum für Angewandte Kunst, 2021

23

1070 Unseen

A social design project on invisible Viennese realities and the everyday work of home care

Vienna Design Week, 2019
Erste MehrWERT Prize

24

Vienna Summer Scouts

An attempt to measure summer in Vienna – a speculative design project on sensory infrastructures of future cities

„Hello Robot“: Vienna Design Week, Vitra Design Museum Weil am Rhein, Museum für angewandte Kunst (MAK) Wien, V&A Dundee, Design Museum Gent, Gewerbemuseum Winterthur, 2018–2026

25

Die Wand

A participatory installation loosely based on Pyramus and Thisbe
with Lino Gasparitsch

Design in Gesellschaft, 2023

26

Wiener Gold

An attempt to reconstruct the history of a place where the Jewish Natowic family ran a lemonade business

Vienna Design Week, 2025

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Curation/
Concept

01

DING

DING began as a shared studio and as an attempt to think design less in isolation. Workshop, exhibition, discussion, and shared infrastructure grow into one another here.

Design in Gesellschaft, 2021–

02

UNDING

A group exhibition about what it means not to be a Ding, but an Unding

Design in Gesellschaft, 2023

03

CODING

The exhibition gathers questions around code and digital order: How do you furnish a cyber home? Who wants to date an intelligent Furby? And how is it that something associated with logic, patterns, and order produces such complex chaos?

Design in Gesellschaft, 2022

04

DING DONG

For DING! DONG!, eleven apartments for Arbio were furnished with Viennese design. The flats were meant to let travellers experience a piece of Viennese design culture – beyond beautiful furniture.

Arbio, Vienna, 2024

05

BUIL­DING

An engagement with one’s own address, and a neighbourhood talk format for gathering information

Design in Gesellschaft, 2025

06

KNIT & WEAVE

An exhibition on textiles in contemporary design – embedded in the historical fabric of Schloss Hollenegg

Schloss Hollenegg, 2025

07

ECoC Nürnberg

For Nuremberg’s bid to become European Capital of Culture, formats were developed around toys, inventiveness, and urban storytelling – among them a festival for digital guilds, a search for Hanswurst, and a residency on the Toys of Tomorrow.

2019–2021

08

OFF-SPRING

What could an exhibition look like when its visitors have only just begun to put the world in order?

Kunstraum Viktoria, 2024

09

School of Maybe

A summer school for experimental design and artistic research at Forum Stadtpark

Forum Stadtpark, 2025, 2026

10

Islands of Loners

A group exhibition on the bed as a setting for loneliness and me-time

Forum Stadtpark, Graz, 2026

11

Besessene Berge

How does one come to own a mountain? And by which spirits are mountains possessed? An exhibition on what ownership does to landscape.

Forum Stadtpark, Graz, 2025

©Johanna Pichlbauer